SLIDESHOW: For Earth Day, 10 awesome items made from trash

In conjunction with Earth Day, graphic design company founder Nathan Devine is raising money on Kickstarter to publish Retrash, a coffee table book featuring photos of people's trash transformed into art, jewelry, furniture and more. Here's a preview of the book, starting with the work of Spanish artist Alvaro Tamarit, who specializes in recycled items. Here, he turned dozens of old books into a piece of furniture. Alvaro Tamarit

Alvaro Tamarit

Andrea Petrachi, an artist based in Milan, Italy, turned an old camera and other discarded items into a piece of artwork. She specializes in turning trashed electronics items, plastic and other materials into "retro-futuristic sculptures." Andrea Petrachi

Andrea Petrachi

The contemporary artists behind Barcelona, Spain-based Bel & Bel turned old Vespa scooters into unique office chairs. "After observing the large amount of waste and unused objects surrounding us, we decided to reuse what seemed useless and give it a new, artistic and durable life," the company says.
Bel & Bel

Bel & Bel

Anita Baills turned beer can snap-tops and old shoelaces into these industrial chic bracelets. This Australian artist specializes in uupcycling items such as leather belts and vintage watch mechanisms that no longer work. She also uses a lot of things from nature, such as deceased butterflies or insects, in her jewelry. Anita Baills

Anita Baills

Benjamin Bullins, a photographer and artist who specializes in structures related to his home city New Orleans , made this bathroom vanity out of an old bicycle. Benjamin Bullins

Benjamin Bullins/Retrash

Artist Mark Langan created this take on Edward Munch’s famous painting, The Scream, out of recycled cardboard. Langan, a self-taught artist who lives outside Cleveland, Ohio, works strictly with reclaimed material. His work is found in boardrooms and lobbies of small to prominent firms throughout the United States. Langan Art

Mark Langam

Battlay Liviu turned a discarded guitar into this shelf.

Battlay Liviu/Retrash

U.K.-based Liz Hamman is a mixed media artist and jeweler who makes jewelry from unwanted books, maps, and other ephemera.
Liz Hamman

Liz Hamman/Retrash

Lanni Lantto, a fashion designer based in Chicago, designs and creates new clothing using pieces of vintage clothing. The name of her label is ‘(re)’: reuse, reduce, redesign, rethink, reinvent, recycle. Lanni Lantto/Retrash

The shed is made of salvaged timber from an industrial building and the red doors are from an old house by the author and founder of Retrash, Nathan Devine.Nathan Devine/Retrash

Nathan Devine is the founder and author of Retrash, a coffee-table book that looks at how artists and designers are reducing the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and oceans by turning trash into useful items. He is raising money on Kickstarter to publish the book featuring photographs of the pieces that you just saw. See his Retrash campaign on Kickstarter here.